She catches fish and always takes great photos! Our amiga Donna Thompson with another big skinny! The ‘hoo bit great off the island!

Ash Ibrahim from San Diego probably had the most fun of anyone this week when he brought his family. Take a look at this roosterfish then watch the video below of how he released it!

Big smiles for Nicole Ibrahim showing off her rooster as she came down this week with her family to celebrate her graduation from college!

Nothing wrong with this photo! Anthony Ibrahim lives in San Diego is about to hit his 3rd year in college in Washington DC. He got himself a nice rooster that he photo’d and released!

Army buddies…friends for life! Owen Hofecker from Johnstown, Pennysylvania and Paul de Haan from Bountiful, Utah triple teamed with Captain Gerardo to put the hurt to three wahoo off Cerralvo Island.

Captain Armando with Doug Edwards wahoo and Penni De Haans striper. On the beach at Bahia de los Muertos. The marlin meat was nicely donated. After a 2 hour fight, the fish was not able to be released.

Nothing like the kids’ smiles! Sofia Ibrahim from San Diego got the biggest pargo of the day fishing around Espirito Santo Island. Brother Tony throws the photos bomb!

First rooster for Riley Florence from Kansas with a nice catch and release with Captain Jorge.

The water must still have some cool spots in it! From San Diego, Jim Bovee with a huge sierra!

Ash and Tony Ibrahim with some great dinner stuff…cabrilla and snapper taken off the island in some great action!

WAHOO ROOSTERS AND ROCKIES CENTER STAGE

For the most part, great weather and great fishing conditions most of the week resulting in some pretty solid catches. Lots of sunshine and increasingly better looking water all-the-way-around helped our anglers put some bend in the rods for a 2nd straight week.

Our biggest problem was a scare that popped up on the radar about mid-week showing a big tropical storm headed our way that was going to bring rain and strong winds beginning this weekend. With so many folks still nervous about Hurricane Odile from last year and many people still smarting over the recovery, the last thing we need is a storm! As far as fishing is concerned, our bite has been so good the last two weeks, I surely wasn’t looking forward to ANYTHING that would mess up the waters or keep folks ashore! Had this storm hit us, it would have brought 2-4 days of intermittent rain.

However, the fishing gods smiled on us and other than some winds late in the week, the sun has continued to shine brilliantly in a cloudless sky and the storm moved off into the pacific without even casting shadow! Whew…

LAS ARENAS/ BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS

That wahoo bite that kicked in two weeks ago continued again. As I said last week, I’ve never seen a wahoo bite like this here in our waters in the 20 years I’ve been down here in La Paz. Almost every day, each of our pangas got 1-4 wahoo and lost others. Most days, if a panga came back without a wahoo, it was because:

1. They weren’t trying for wahoo or

2. They lost the wahoo they hooked

I’ll let our amigo, Roger Thompson tell you best:

“We were on the water at 5:30 this morning and had our first wahoo on the boat by 6am. At 6:15, we had another. Next was a double hookup around 7am and we landed both fish. We also saw 1 giant free swimmer just under the boat while fighting these 2. We hooked 2 more wahoo and lost 1 just before 7:30. Hooked another around 8:15 and this one came unbuttoned 10 feet from the boat. I hate it when that happens! No more wahoo bites for an hour and decided we caused enough damage for one day so we stopped to reel in the Rapalas and head back to the ramp. I slowed down, put her into neutral, and shut it down…….then wham. The short one got slammed and the bonus fish was in the box after 10 minutes of high speed runs and wahoos!

I guess what I’m trying to say is it’s an early morning bite for sure. It reminded me of the “good ole days”!

These fish were all quality fish between 26 and 42 pounds. “

Some of our amigos who fished multiple days with us in the area actually got to the point where the didn’t want to fish for wahoo anymore! There were others who just didn’t want to take any more wahoo home and there were alot of very happy captains who were getting 1-3 wahoo as “gifts” to take home!

The other “fish” we’ve been doing pretty solidly on are the rooster fish. It’s not wide-open, but there’s some medium-sized 20-60 pound fish cruising around and if you wanted to catch a rooster, there was even-money that you had a good chance on any given day of hooking 1-2 fish. Way better than say, two weeks ago . All fish are getting released.

Also seeing a few more dorado in the area. I’m surprised there aren’t more around by this time of the season already. Normally, we’re thick with dorado by now!

LA PAZ

We had consistent fishing with our La Paz fleet headed straight out and working north of the city around Espirito Santo Island or around the corner between Tecolote and Las Cruces.

We are definitely seeing more dorado action with fish between 10-20 pounds at the largest, but again, I would have expected more dorado by this time.

The best bite has been inshore among the rocks. Good action on some really sweet pargo, yellow snapper, amberjack and big cabrilla. Lots of larger fish getting lost in the rocks.

We’re seeing a few more marlin around that are actually willing to bite. Several were hooked and lost.